Minoxidil

“I don't know for sure, but there's a lot of evidence that part of the reason hair dies out and stops growing is lack of blood flow. And the Minoxidil that people put on their hair helps with that. Right, interesting. And then DHT inhibitors.”

“the peptide sites try to tell you, like, this is better than minoxidil. Not really.”

“you could take Minoxidil all day you could take all the pumpkin seed oil saw palmetto”

“mildly very lightly prone that's where you need to like layer up with the 5-alpha reductase inhibition pharmaceutically and then minoxidil is the growth stimulant that is fda approved and works reliably it's just hit or miss if it works based on your own enzymatic conversion”

“now obviously no one's gonna light their head on fire hopefully but that's a thing um so with respect to the the topical you know strategies like the minoxidil i mean”

“enzyme activity that leads to the minoxidil sulfate conversion that you get systemically it leads to some people like pericardial effusion like what's the best way to get that”

“Is the tretinoin oral or? Topical, you would get like a compounding pharmacy to formulate it with a minoxidil because you buy that over the counter that would be like you would now have gone to the pharmaceutical route at that point”

“i would escalate to like the pharmaceutical compounded route at that point if you needed to with like the tretinoin compounded minoxidil um it's funny the microneedling like i'm interested in for skin effects and so yeah people use on their face too like oh yeah so i you know it is”

“ensuring adequate absorption of the drug because when you do microneedling on its own like versus minoxidil on its own versus microneedling plus minoxidil like it's not a good idea to do it on a comparable outcome in terms of like you would expect the microneedling alone group to be very”

“is the same and again there's snips that like some people that have those snips are more susceptible to to believing that something is harming them um if they're like aware of those things and so yeah well that's interesting to to know but clarifying quick on the minoxidil though it's a growth stimulant it does absolutely nothing that we know of to attenuate the”

“pretty benign helpful good shampoo regardless that's why I use it but Finasteride or Dutasteride or topical antiandrogen probably going to be necessary for most people minoxidil is the thing you use to regrow hair it's not the thing that prevents loss you can cosmetically offset the”